Enhancing a video may take a lot of time even on powerful hardware, but you’re going to get considerably better enhancements than NVIDIA’s or other solutions. Strongly emphasize video quality improvements.I think a future version of Video AI could thrive in two different directions, examples of which are described below. If I’m going to spend several hours (common) or multiple days (rare but it happens) upscaling a video, I want it to be of the best possible quality.

In my opinion, I think Topaz should make model quality its single top priority, aside from bug fixes, in the near future, especially given the lack of updates to upscaling models over the past year. In particular, I wouldn’t be surprised if NVIDIA’s feature focused mainly on gaming and streaming videos at first rather than old home movies and other kinds of videos. I don’t think RTX Video Super Resolution will be as good as Topaz across a variety of videos (and similar skepticism is shared by folks on Reddit, especially due to people’s experiences with misleading marketing from NVIDIA and other tech companies) overall. Even if Video AI’s speeds match or exceed real-time, one still has to spend time creating the upscaled video before watching it. Once that happens, its convenience will put it at a great advantage over other solutions. I’m going to go in the opposite direction and suggest that Topaz improve upscale quality even further at the expense of speed, but increases to the speed and efficiency on the underlying hardware are always welcome.Ĭurrently NVIDIA’s RTX Video Super Resolution feature is browser-only (and just two browsers at that), but I think NVIDIA will expand it to media players in the future. Then of course, you have to try it by hand and make the comparison in the final quality, but there is no doubt that Topaz definitely needs to work on the performance of its upscaling, as the RTX 3000 series GPUs and Intel i7 CPUs from the 10 series onwards are not exploited properly, I see it with my own eyes with my configuration (i7 10700 and RTX 3070)! OK, but it’s still a 4K upscaling of a video stream in REAL TIME!!! (repeat with me… REEEAALL TIIMEEE)… for me it’s still something stunning if the quality is really improved, TVAI-style.

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